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Show Thursday, November 20, 2008 SPRING V I LLE HERALD -, - 1 . KS S' WW i v I i ' a 1 r 1 1 ' J - 1 T 1 TIL DO l:J 1 W l i -'CM - HI r U - : """" ' i l i . v The American Legion enjoyed the annual Veterans Day dinner and program Nov. 12. The speaker was J. Lynn Jones, director of Special Education and federal programs for Nebo School District. He talked about the progress in the district, after which 32 student from Springville Junior High School sang, directed by Leslie Walker. Shown above are the students and, in front, Boyd and Vera Goodrich, program directors; J. Lynn Jones, Leslie Walker and pianist Erin Bailey. Warm hearts and cold blood save a life Most victims do not expect ex-pect the sudden, abrupt loss of heart function that is better known as a cardiac car-diac arrest. The number of these events that occur every ev-ery year is unknown, but an estimated 95 percent of victims die before they can get to a hospital. Unfortunately, Un-fortunately, those who are revived often suffer brain and heart damage. - These discouraging facts are improving, however, how-ever, thanks to the growing grow-ing use of a state-of-the-art medical treatment at hospitals across the country. coun-try. One of those progressive progres-sive healthcare providers is Timpanogos Regional Hospital, where special equipment and a medical team trained to induce hypothermia artificially are helping patients who survive a cardiac arrest. "Studies have proven that neurologic recovery from cardiac arrest correlates with body temperature," explained Dr. Martin Lee, critical care specialist and medical director of critical care services at the Orem hospital. Decreasing .core body temperature diminishes dimin-ishes the brain's need for oxygert and prevents further fur-ther injury." Springville resident, 76-year-old Wilma Broad-head, Broad-head, and 'her family can now testify to the difference differ-ence that induced hypothermia hypo-thermia can make. She unexpectedly un-expectedly went into full cardiac arrest at Timpanogos Timpa-nogos Regional Hospital after being successfully treated for a GI bleed. Wilma, who prefers to 'be called Billy, was stay-tog stay-tog an extra night in the hospital. Billy's physician, Dr. Sean Curzon, agreed with her family's concern; she did not seem strong enough to go home yet. Their instincts were right. Billy's heart stopped beating beat-ing later that evening. An alert nurse, Tracy Bills, heiraldextra.com V ' i M ' I if - " ' VISA. ! ;. o ... n Timpanogos Regional Hospital nurse Tracy Bills, R.N., left, Intensive Care Unit Director Julie Thornton, and Dr. Martin Lee, critical care specialist and medical director of critical care services at the Orem hospital, all worked together with additional team members and special equipment to artificially induce hypothermia on revived cardiac arrest victim Wilma Broadhead, 76, of Springville. Performance of this progressive treatment is growing in hospitals across the country to reduce heart and brain damage to successfully resuscitated patients. and telemetry tech, Rick Nielsen, were monitoring her vital signs, noticed the cardiac arrest and quickly took action. After Billy was resuscitated, resusci-tated, she was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) - in a coma and at risk for serious brain damage. dam-age. Daughter Mykeanne Hurst and her family soon faced a tough decision. The hospital's medical team suggested performing perform-ing induced hypothermia, a procedure that could reduce damage to Billy's heart and brain, and perhaps per-haps save her life. Her family agreed to try it. Hurst watched ICU Nursing Director Julie Thornton and her team set up the equipment that would induce hypothermia. hypotherm-ia. Billy's daughter recalls feeling terrified, as the medical team covered her mother with a blue chest Best Price Guaranteed! 90 Days Same as Cash 1 Dav Install with No Damage to Walls or. Paint um co LIIW IIIIIW VcUUIIUI lltJW ADVANfTACE K CALL (001) - FREE ESTIMATES! Visit our Showroom 35 East 400 South Springville Hours: Mon-Sat 8a. m to 5p.m. , ILj ; 1 piece and cooling blankets, blan-kets, which would reduce her body temperature to 32-34 degrees Celsius over the next four-to-eight hours. "The amount of time it takes to induce the hypothermia hypo-thermia varies with each patient, and their body is held in this state for a standard stan-dard 24 hours before raising rais-ing its temperature back to normal very slowly," said Dr. Lee, who oversaw Billy's procedure to ensure its accuracy and timing. Billy was stabilized within the 24-hour window, win-dow, which gave her body time to recover from the cardiac arrest. After being completely re-warmed, she began to rally over the next six-to-eight hours and soon awoke to her family surrounding her. Now home with her family, fam-ily, Billy gets frustrated sometimes when she can '(' (fill O.A.C. Pohntec Mnw Available 222 - 3350 not remember something, but that is normal for someone her age. Overall, Over-all, she is alert and has no signs of permanent complications com-plications from the cardiac cardi-ac arrest. Every day, she gets better. "At Timpanogos Hospital, Hospi-tal, they take care of patients pa-tients and their families," said Hurst. "We were in shock and medical staff was our support system. They did a great job of acting act-ing quickly, and then really real-ly helped us to understand what was happening." Her family believes that what happened to Billy is truly a miracle, made possible pos-sible by the skilled training train-ing and timely response of a team of healthcare providers who have enacted enact-ed induced hypothermia protocols at Timpanogos Regional Hospital for patients pa-tients in these types of situations. 6s WOW ! Sage Creek had ten sixth grade students who move to the next level of this year's reflection competition. They are: Nlakenna Swapp, Renee Swapp, Darby Hadley, Marinn Graves, Lea Graham, Brit Suckow, Makell Wilson, Connor Burns, Addie Harmon and Hannah Blomquist. Congratulations go out to these creative and talented students! . ; Students win at international audio engineering competition Two Utah Valley University Univer-sity students, including one from Springville, recently ' took first place against university students from around the world with their one-of-a-kind mixing board design at the 125th annual Audio Engineering Society's Student Grammy Award competition held in San Francisco. The two digital media students, Sean Wolsey of Springville and Jeremy Redd of Orem, built a prototype pro-totype for their built-in microphone amplifier and equalizer circuit-in-one, es sentially creating a one-of-a-kind mixing board. This is the second time the two students have placed at the competition. . "Our students are competing com-peting against some of the most respected audio programs in' the world in this international competition," competi-tion," said Mike Wisland, professor of digital media me-dia at UVU. 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